Former Khmer Rouge and their current whereabouts: Heng Samrin (L) is President of the National Assembly of Cambodia, Chea Sim (C) is President the Senate of Cambodia, and Hun Sen (R) is the current Prime Minister of Cambodia. Hun Sen plans to hold his PM position until the age of 90-year-old.May 20, 2007
Cambodians mark Day of Hatred at Khmer Rouge killing field
DPA
Phnom Penh - Around a thousand Cambodians flocked to the Choeung Ek Killing Fields on the outskirts of the capital Sunday to mark the official anniversary of the beginning of the Khmer Rouge regime's bloody killing spree.
Organizers said more than 100 Buddhist monks in saffron robes prayed at the infamous stupa of human skulls at the center of the mass-grave site before mourners made offerings of fruit, incense, food and money.
The National Day of Hatred was first marked on May 20, 1984 by the Vietnamese-backed People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) government set up after the Khmer Rouge was ousted in 1979.
It is now also often called the National Day of Remembrance after the last of the former Khmer Rouge troops defected to the government in the late 1990's, but is still faithfully observed by the present Cambodian government, particularly the dominant Cambodian People's Party.
The PRK declared it 'the day when the blood and life of ... innocent Kampucheans was shed and destroyed, when the tears of the surviving Kampucheans started flowing up to the present.'
It was said to officially mark the day when the Khmer Rouge first began a wholesale slaughter after its April 17, 1975 victory which eventually left up to 2 million Cambodians dead.
A joint 56-million-dollar UN-Cambodian process to try a handful of elderly, ailing former Khmer Rouge leaders continues to stumble forward, with proceedings hoped to begin in earnest later this year.
Khmer Rouge supreme leader Pol Pot died at his home in 1998. His military commander Ta Mok, nicknamed The Butcher, died in hospital last year of age-related complications.
20 comments:
Mee Yeakkeney jkout (Socheata),
that is not KR but liberators.
After all, the Khmer Rouge are our fellow Cambodians, are they not? We should have realised full well by now that hate and anger had led them to slaughter their fellow Cambodians, yet we continue to nurture hate and angeer. It is no good for Buddhism when Buddhist monks give to their blessings to such hate and anger,
Can loving kindness (metta) or agape have a tiny room to grow in our hearts at all, I wonder.
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
these khmers rouge,they're fake Buddhist.I remembered in April 17 1975 when i was 13ys,all of them the same evils face.are they liberators ? got damn.
hahhahahaha.... After killing and insulting the uncivilian who are unarmed these Khmer rouge thugs are Buddhists. hahahahahah.........
Yes they are the liberators alright, but they don't act like ones.
I beg your pardon Dr. LAO Mong Hay.
Are you sure among those Khmer Rouge there're no VietCong Rouge among them? The Khmer Rouge Viet Congs like Hor Nam Hong, Nguyen Van Son aka Hok Lundi etc.
You'd ebetter preach to the Khmer and Yuan Rouge not the public who only expressed theri opinions what they hace seen.
Yes, Hun Sen's behavior is shwon exactly how Khmer/Yuan Rouge always do. Has Hun Sen changed from Khmer Rouge to a civilized person? No.
Hun Sen has depicted himself as he is Khmer Rouge so his message to the public is clear, he is the Khmer Rouge who graduated from the same school as his brother Pol Pot.
Hey, vietcong is our pals, Fluke's
Boy. Only Ah Khmer-Yuons is our
enemy. As for the school you got
Hun Sen mixed up with Ah Sam
Rainsy who went to school in France
with Pol Pot.
Oh hah. Viet Cong is you my friend. You are Yuan yep but using a Khmer citizen. You are ah Yuan-Khmer. I gotcha pal.
Eh, Ah Lop @ 1:47 AM! You don't even know what the fuck you are talking about! You are always blah! blah! the same shits! I have told you before that the planet earth is not flat like your head and you still think it is, asshole! Ah lop 7 Son-Dan!
Mr LAO MONG HAY,,,
Khmers rouge has no room in our heart. They killed our parents ,brothers, sisters,sons ,daughters,nieces and nephews,cousins,second cousins you named it . They are forever our deadly enemies whether in HELL,HEAVEN or THANN KANDAL......
Let's carry on hating, knowing full well what hate has done and continues do to our society.
Perhaps we should spare a little bit of time, though, to ponder over this moral issue, now that a tribunal is being created to try the Khmer Rouge leader. We need to ask ourselves also why just a matter of a very short time, a group of our fellow Cambodians discarded all morals and murdered whomsover they didn't like. Or they did not have any moral values in them at all? Did our Buddhist clergy, our moralists, our educators, our leaders untterly fail to inculcate such values deep enough in their fellow Cambodians?
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
Dr. LAO Mong Hay,
I don't know what is in your mind, but if you think that you can see through these posters who are Yuan or who are Khmers then I have to inform you "get real Dr."
Study the root or cause of hate before you make your comments.
What if some of these people are not Khmers but ethnic Yuan which we called new faces, eg., Nguyen Van Son aka Hok Lundi?
Come one Dr. You know better than that. I am not on eof your peopel but I do care for the people who are innocence who love peace and democracy are being suffering by Yaun Hanoi and its puppets Khmer Rouge Hun Sen, Chea Sim, Heng Samrin etc..
I think you already know what Yuan Hanoi's been up to, but in case you forget then read it again.
http://www.fva.org/0897/story4.htm
Sam Nazi of the SRP must be
stopped from abusing and touturing
Khmer People! They have spilled
thousands of Khmer bloods and
practically wipe out our culture
in the last few decades.
Sam Nazi must be stopped now!
Sam Nazi must be stopped now!
Sam Nazi must be stopped now!
Eh, Ah Chkout @ 11:26 AM! Don't forget to breath, Ah Preat
Three monkeys Vietcong slave are praying for their life!ahahhahahh
I just hope all of them can live up to the age of 90 years old!ahaha
Serious guys, Sam Nazi is intended
to keep us in poverty forever; that
is why he's determined to deter
businesses from the region by
creating all sorts of instability
here. He had funded many Ah Khmer-
Yuon's terror cells in South
Vietnam that is used in S.
Thailand from the extorted money.
Thus, Sam Nazi should be stopped.
12:52 PM, you speak like Yuan, you can be dragged from where you posted for slender. You know Rainsy is Khmer and he does for the interest of Khmer people. Your accusation is Yuan's propaganda, and you can ne responsible for it.
KI knows everyone's IP, you must not try to be a TERROR. The name and location of the computer you used can get you or anyone.
that scarring communist tactic so what you can do to me if you know me? go it you shit !
Viva free speach
To 12:52 Free Vietname bastard!
Seriously! You sound like the Viet from Free Vietname group! Why all of sudden you start acting up? Do you think you can stop the Khmer Krom self-determination to live as human? No can do bastard!
You fucken bastard need to remember that at one point there are North Vietname and South Vietname! The South Vietname is nothing more than a Khmer Kampuchea Krom land! The Khmer Kampuchea Krom land is more diverse and more vibrant economically then the North Vietname controlled by the homogenous black teeth Vietcong.
Hey, the vietcong has no problem
with people who live like human,
but they do have problem with
people who lives like wild dogs.
And the wild dogs are Viet Cong.
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